Capitol Hill craft cocktail long-timer Tavern Law has new owners

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A pillar of Capitol Hill’s craft cocktail scene is in new hands. Tavern Law has new ownership with neighborhood connections.

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The 12th Ave cocktail joint announced business partners Ken Jones and Saulo Cruz will lead the tavern into its next chapter:

The story continues…For years, Tavern Law has been a gathering place for friends, neighbors, and cocktail lovers alike. Today, we’re excited to welcome Saulo & Ken as the new owners.🖤 With a passion for people and a love of craft, they’re here to keep the heartbeat of Tavern Law alive while building new traditions for the community we love. Here’s to cocktails, connection, and the next chapter together.

The pairing places Tavern Law into a growing Capitol Hill food and drink family. Continue reading →

Amid new police cameras and catenary lghts, Capitol Hill ‘Stay Out of Drug Area’ now leads the city in banishment orders

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Embroiled in a heated race for her office as City Hall incumbents face strong progressive challengers headed into November, City Attorney Ann Davison says Seattle’s “Stay Out of Drug Area” banishment zones that she and Mayor Bruce Harrell championed are working and that the Capitol HIll SODA now leads the city in orders restricting defendants from entering the area.

The Capitol Hill SODA currently is subject to 41 individual orders, Davison told the Seattle CIty Council in a public safety briefing (PDF) Tuesday, leading even the busy downtown zone where 26 orders have been issued.

Tuesday, Davison said the bottom line goals of the SODA program she championed are simple — “to disrupt open air drug markets.”

“If we just see less of the activity, they are working,” Davison said. Continue reading →

Thursday is the last Capitol Hill Art Walk of the summer

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Thursday brings the monthly Capitol Hill Art Walk to the galeries, salons, cafes, bars, restaurants, and etc. of the neighborhood. We’re giving you a full day’s notice on this one — It’s the final Art Walk of summer.

September highlights include John Behr’s “Shades and Shapes, Dynamics and Dimensions” at 11th Ave’s Vermillion, the work of The ADHD Witch at E Pike’s Scream Salon and a remembrance and presentation of Spiritual Cookies, a fragrance line created by late Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green, at Melrose’s Glasswing.

Don’t despair about summer’s passing. The Capitol Hill Art Walk goes year-round — though we can’t promise temperatures in the 60s and no drizzle in October and beyond.

As always, you can find a map and more highlights at capitolhillartwalk.com.

 

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Roma Roma — with Roman pizza ‘by the cut’ — coming to Capitol Hill’s 12th Ave

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It will be “a Roman holiday every day” as a familiar face in the long ago Linda Derschang Capitol Hill food and drink empire returns to Seattle for his triumphant pizza return.

Roma Roma is currently under construction in the former Rachel’s Ginger Beer space below the 12th Ave Arts building.

The new project is taking shape as chef Forrest Brunton returns to the city and neighborhood where he formerly held down the kitchens at various Derschang-era joints including Oddfellows and Smith. Continue reading →

Report: King County Council mulling pause in Broadway Crisis Care Center process — UPDATE

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The proposed Broadway site

A member of the King County Council says he has prepared an “emergency resolution” calling for a 30-day pause on the county’s efforts to acquire the Polyclinic building at the corner of Broadway and Union where a $56 million Broadway Crisis Care Center is planned.

Reagan Dunn, representing the county’s southeast, is reportedly mulling the call for a pause over concerns about the proposed property deal raised by “a group of Capitol Hill business owners and residents,” KOMO reports:

The group sent a lengthy letter to King County Executive Shannon Braddock, County Council Chair Girmay Zahilay, and Department of Community and Health Services Director Kelly Rider last week, accusing them of potentially violating laws and triggering a devolving street crime situation like what happed with the failed Navigation Center in Little Saigon.

UPDATE: In a statement provided to CHS Tuesday, Dunn is reportedly pausing his call for a pause. “CM Dunn is not currently calling for the aforementioned delay pending the outcome of tomorrow’s hearing where we will learn more about the issue,” a spokesperson said.

CHS has not been provided with a copy of the letter but representatives from nearby Cancer Pathways and Perkins Glass spoke to the TV station about their concerns over the proposed center.

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Seattle City Council ready to flick on new ‘Real Time Crime Center’ cameras in Pike/Pine and the Central District — UPDATE

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The Seattle City Council is expected Tuesday to approve legislation expanding the city’s Real Time Crime Center with new cameras in Pike/Pine and the Central District plus expansion of the Seattle Police Department surveillance system to use select Seattle Department of Transportation traffic cameras in the program.

The council’s public safety committee including District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth has signed off on the “surveillance technology implementation” plan. CHS reported here on final debate about data privacy and how the city says it will handle any potential legal wrangling with outside agencies like ICE.

UPDATE: The council approved the expansions 7-2 with Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Dan Strauss opposing the plan over privacy concerns and worries about federal encroachment. Public safety chair Bob Kettle, a former naval intelligence commander, said an amendment approved Tuesday is “aimed at avoiding any cooperation with federal civil immigration enforcement.”

The legislation will expand the SPD Real Time Crime Center surveillance camera system to include the Capitol Hill nightlife core around E Pike and Cal Anderson Park and a major swath of the Central District from E Cherry to Jackson police officials say is necessary to prevent gun violence near Garfield High School. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill: New home of the two wealthiest Puget Sound ZIP Codes

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Two ZIP codes covering Northern Capitol Hill neighborhoods — not Medina, nor Mercer Island — now rank as the wealthiest areas on the Puget Sound. Soaring housing values, booming incomes for some, and economic changes are factors.

So are methodologies. Continue reading →

Amid ongoing twin crises of affordability and homelessness, final debates for Seattle’s next 20-year growth plan include neighborhood borders and ‘bees and trees’

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You can view the “live” proposed zoning map here

Seattle is ready to finalize a new 20-year growth plan including new “Neighborhood Centers” and “Middle Housing” laws expanding zoning to allow a greater range of housing types in more parts of the city.

The process has played out as Seattle’s twin crises of housing affordability and homelessness have continued to grow. In the meantime, core areas of the city have continued to rise as some of the wealthiest areas in the county, state, and nation.

For all the debate, not much will change. Nearly 70% of new construction expected under the plan would be constrained to “Regional Centers,” the plan’s designation for the city’s most densely populated, high transit areas — Downtown, Lower Queen Anne, South Lake Union, University District, Northgate, Ballard, and First Hill and Capitol Hill —- or less dense but still highly developed areas like 23rd Ave from Union to Jackson.

A public hearing Friday will include 100 proposed amendments to finalize the plan — and a day of some of the last opportunities for public comment after years of debate.

The amendments on the table Friday for Seattle City Council’s comprehensive plan committee chaired by District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth range from large to small, including proposals that would bolster protections for “bees and trees” across the whole of the plan down to a set of amendments that would make final adjustments on select neighborhood boundaries in the plan. Continue reading →

911 | Broadway ATM robbery, gas station hold-ups, and a Pike/Pine drug ‘werewolf’

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See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt/Signal (206) 399-5959. You can view recent CHS 911 coverage here. Hear sirens and wondering what’s going on? Check out reports from @jseattle or join and check in with neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group.

  • Broadway gunpoint robbery: A banking customer at the Broadway Chase branch was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night. Police were called to the 300 block Broadway E bank around 6:15 PM where a customer said she had used the ATM and was walking near the back of the bank when the male suspect approached and drew a gun, demanding her money. The suspect grabbed the victim’s wallet and ran. He was last seen headed west on E Thomas. Police searched the area but made no arrest. There were no reported injuries. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Historical Society event brings author’s stories of early Seattle Jewish families to 15th Ave

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The Gaslight Inn

Treiger

Inspired by her new book exploring the paths of five families through the shaping of modern Seattle, the Capitol Hill Historical Society is hosting a special event with the author at a 15th Ave Capitol Hill landmark at the center of one of the stories.

The Capitol Hill Historical Society will host author Karen Treiger for an evening of local history and storytelling. The event, titled “Jewish Seattle in the Gilded Age,” will take place on Sunday, September 21st from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at The Gaslight Inn, the historic bed and breakfast at 1727 15th Ave. Continue reading →